Thedosios Kyriakidis
Lecturer of Modern History at Intenational Hellenic University
Thedosios Kyriakidis holds a PhD in Modern History from The University of Western Macedonia, Greece. He graduated from the Faculty of Theology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and attended courses at the Westfaelische-Wilhelms Universität, Münster. He also received a diploma in Greek Paleography and a master’s degree in Historical Theology. He is an alumnus of the Genocide and Human Rights University Program, organized by The International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies and the History Department of the University of Toronto. Moreover, he has conducted post-doctoral research at the La Sapienza University of Rome. His research interests include the history and culture of the Greeks of Pontus and Asia Minor as well as the Genocide of the Christian population of the Ottoman Empire. He has been awarded with several scholarships from institutions in Greece, Italy and USA. His latest works include: In the Name of Faith and Civilization: Roman-Catholic Missionaries in Nineteenth-Century Pontus (2019), The multifaceted nature of an Identidy: Essays in Pontian Hellenism (2021), The Genocide of the Christian populations in the Ottoman Empire and its Aftermath (1908-1923), Rutledge, 2023 (with Taner Akcam and Kyriakos Chatzikyriakidis) and The Genocide of Orthodox Greeks and the Persecution of Christians in the Pontus Region according to Vatican archives Gorgias 2026. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Chair for Pontic Studies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a visiting lecturer at the International Hellenic University and the Hellenic Open University.